听播客学英语 273 水仙

 　　Soon it will be spring, and the spring flowers will appear in our gardens and in the countryside. Among these will be the daffodils, which are yellow, trumpet¹ shaped flowers, which many people grow in their gardens, but which also grow in the wild. William Wordsworth wrote a famous poem about seeing wild daffodils beside a lake. It begins like this:

　　I wander’d lonely as a cloud

　　That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

　　When all at once I saw a crowd,

　　A host, of golden daffodils;

　　Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

　　Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

　　William Wordsworth lived in the early 19th century, in the Lake District, an area of mountains and lakes in the north west of England. At that time, most people thought of the Lake District as a wild and unhospitable place. But for Wordsworth, as for most people today, the Lake District is the most beautiful part of England. Here is how the poem ends:

　　For oft, when on my couch I lie

　　In vacant or in pensive² mood,

　　They flash upon that inward eye

　　Which is the bliss³ of solitude⁴;

　　And then my heart with pleasure fills,

　　And dances with the daffodils.

　　The music today is Spring Song by Frank Bridge, played by the Brunswick Duo.

1 trumpet   

n.喇叭，喇叭声；v.吹喇叭，吹嘘

参考例句：

• He plays the violin, but I play the trumpet.他拉提琴，我吹喇叭。
• The trumpet sounded for battle.战斗的号角吹响了。

2 pensive   

a.沉思的,哀思的,忧沉的

参考例句：

• He looked suddenly sombre,pensive.他突然看起来很阴郁，一副忧虑的样子。
• He became so pensive that she didn't like to break into his thought.他陷入沉思之中,她不想打断他的思路。

3 bliss   

n.狂喜，福佑，天赐的福

参考例句：

• It's sheer bliss to be able to spend the day in bed.整天都可以躺在床上真是幸福。
• He's in bliss that he's won the Nobel Prize.他非常高兴，因为获得了诺贝尔奖金。

4 solitude   

n. 孤独; 独居,荒僻之地,幽静的地方

参考例句：

• People need a chance to reflect on spiritual matters in solitude. 人们需要独处的机会来反思精神上的事情。
• They searched for a place where they could live in solitude. 他们寻找一个可以过隐居生活的地方。